s�ndag 25. november 2001, 23:00 skrev John Gay:
> Sorry, but I did not get much further with Local Floppy or CD access on
> LTSP. I did resolve a few more issues via another list (ILUG, the Irish
> Linux Users Group) but never got the local floppy access working at all. I
> never got the chance to attempt the CD access but was told that with the
> current state of the nbd driver that CD access would be almost impossible.
Well, at least I'm not the only person who hasn't seen the light (on the
local floppy).
> I know that *some people* did have limited success using floppyd but again,
> this seems to be more hit and miss than anything else.
This seems more and more a dead end.
>
> On a positive note, someone has offered to completely re-write the nbd
> driver and scripts with an eye to getting local floppy and CD access as a
> comercial project with some company backing. I don't remember the exact
> tread but it was posted to this list a while back. This seems to be the
> most promising route to getting floppy and CD access on the workstation.
I've had response from the guys behind this project, looking for money. Our
project has none, at least for the time being, so I can't help them there.
>
> As for sound, I don't have any sound cards in my workstations, so I did not
> even attempt to get this However, there seems to be much more sucess with
> this, so it might be better.
OK, that's good to hear (sic!), I'll keep at it. I think it's going to be
more important to have sound than floppies.
>
> Good luck with your project and your pending demonstration. I'm sure that
> jsut being able to allow several people to access one server via low-cost
> workstations will be very impressive to anyone used to the Windows way of
> doing things.
Yep. They were mighty impressed. Old P90s were performing like OAPs on Viagra
;-)
Thanks for responding.
--
Mvh
Ragnar Wisl�ff
Fri Agenda/LinuxLabs
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